Nov 21, 2023 | Confederate affiliation, Emancipation, New Hanover, Union affiliation
Submitted by Dr. Harry Watson; Summary written by Kobe M. Brown; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Burkhead, History of the Difficulties In 1865, Rev. L. S. Burkhead’s kept a personal account of his experiences and perceptions of events that occurred after he was appointed...
Oct 26, 2023 | Antebellum era, Emancipation, New Hanover
Article clipping submitted by Nicholle Young; summary written by Cheri Todd Molter This clipping is of two articles from the Wilmington Journal that ran in August of 1860. One pertains to the submitter’s attempt to regain control over Bridgett, a “lame but quick,”...
Oct 26, 2023 | Antebellum era, Emancipation, New Hanover
Advertisement submitted by Nicholle Young; Summary written by Cheri Todd Molter In February 1859, Peter, a “stout,” Black man who had been enslaved by the Colvin family of New Hanover County, ran away. As of May 8, 1860—over a year later—Peter was still free and was...
Aug 29, 2023 | Antebellum era, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, Reconstruction
Submitted by Craig James; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Please allow me to introduce to you a phenomenal woman who was born around 1847 in Eastern North Carolina. At a very early age she became the property of John James, the owner of Sycamore Springs...
Apr 8, 2022 | Cumberland, New Hanover, Union affiliation
Submitted by Ed Gibson; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter One morning, while sitting at coffee with several other Cape Fear Round Table members, I heard Bill Jayne mention that there was a member of the 147th Pennsylvania buried at the Wilmington National...
Jul 31, 2021 | New Hanover, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Anne Russell (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is the transcription of the letter that was published in the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, Inc. Bulletin (Vol. XLVI No. 3, November 2002) (Photographs of the original letters are below;...
